Re: League will consider abolishing all blocks below the waist in 2013

PFT has revised the story. The paragraph which said cut blocks were going to be eliminated now says:

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Instead, King believes that the chop block, which is legal in some situations, will be eliminated, and that downfield cut blocks (like the one that tore Chiefs safety Eric Berryís ACL last year) will be banned.

Re: League will consider abolishing all blocks below the waist in 2013

They'll consider it but they won't go through with it. Instead they'll call for stricter enforcement of the chop block rules and maybe up the penalty. Maybe they'll come up with some tweak that will only allow cut blocks in front of the play or something. They're not going to get rid of it though.

Think of the effect it would have on the running game. Not just the running game for teams like ours who use the zone scheme exclusively but all those teams who do a little bit of it to throw a wrinkle in. I bet you that making cut blocks entirely illegal would hurt the running game of at least half the teams in the NFL. There just aren't enough quality road-grader linemen out there which is really what the zone blocking scheme is all about. Taking a different kind of lineman that most teams might not want and putting him in a system that plays to his strengths. Much like the 3-4 defense takes those tweaners and makes use of them.

When the running game goes to hell in a hand basket the pass rushers will pin their ears back and start destroying QB's. Running backs won't even be able to cut them in pass protection. We're back to square one and they start trying to protect the QB's again.

At some point it stops being football entirely and just turns into some sort of "basketball on 100 yards of grass".

No, they'll pay some lip service to it and then stop short of changing it. That's my prediction.